Papers by Roberto Che Espinoza
Feminist Theology
Indecent Theology has provided both Feminist Theology and Liberation Theology with new contours f... more Indecent Theology has provided both Feminist Theology and Liberation Theology with new contours for rethinking bodies, power, dominance, and submission. With regard to the logic of dominance that radically pushes the margins of the margins into a form of inexistent living, I suggest a material turn to rethink the contours that are evoked with Indecent Theology. Materialism has long stood as a philosophy opposing the overwhelming dominance of language and the poststructuralist emphasis that has emerged as the ‘linguistic turn’. Considering ‘new materialism’ as a theoretical platform to reread Indecent Theology provides theologies and ethics an opportunity to re-imagine indecent methodologies through indecency, a sort of ethical perversion. I suggest an indecent turn in mobilizing materialism and kink as theories to reread indecent theology for a productive queer materialist sexual theology. The feminist liberation theology of Marcella Althaus-Reid pushes both feminism and liberation ...
Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion
Espín/The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Latino/a Theology, 2015
Journal for the Study of Religion, Dec 2013
This article critically departs from the second-wave feminism of first-generation Latina feminist... more This article critically departs from the second-wave feminism of first-generation Latina feminist and mujerista theology by focusing on Chicana queer feminist theorist Gloria Anzaldúa’s relational epistemology. I argue that Anzaldúa’s work is a new form of feminist theologising that stems from a radical commitment to interconnectedness and relationality. I enter into a conversation with Anzaldúa in order to foreground new, productive, and creative ways to reflect on feminist standpoint epistemology and ontology, which in turn open up interesting avenues through which to think about the material and experiential dimensions of women’s theologising. I consider Anzaldúa’s El Mundo Zurdo (The Left-Handed World)1 and her fecund notion of spiritual activism in order to illuminate the centrality of relationality and interdependence when conceptualising new forms of women’s subjective engagements in the production of theology.
... He is the author of Position and Responsibility: Jürgen Habermas, Reinhold Niebuhr, and the C... more ... He is the author of Position and Responsibility: Jürgen Habermas, Reinhold Niebuhr, and the Co-Reconstruction of the PositionalImperative (2009) and ... He has also taught at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johan-nesburg, South Africa, where he served as the treasurer ...
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